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Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin
by Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis. 147 pgs.

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A well-known, popular, and prolific writer, Austin published thirty-three books and three plays and was closely associated with many important literary figures of her time, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jack London, and Willa Cather. Still best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Austin has been increasingly recognized for her work on feminist themes, including the play The Arrow Maker, the nonfiction The Young Woman Citizen, and the novels A Woman of Genius and No. 26 Jayne Street. Beyond Borders demonstrates that variety. In addition to her monographs, Austin also published her short fiction and essays in periodicals. In fact, like many a writer earning a living from her work, Austin wrote prolifically for the magazine market, producing during her career over two hundred individual pieces published in over sixty periodicals. In support of Austin's essays, Reuben J. Ellis provides an introduction that establishes a biographical and historical context for Austin's work. In addition, each individual Austin essay is prefaced by brief introductory remarks by the editor. A selected bibliography of Austin's essays is also included.

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Beyond Borders

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

One Hundred Miles on Horseback

A Land of Little Rain

From an Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist

Sex Emancipation Through War

New York: Dictator of American Criticism

Wanted: a New Method in Mexico

From My Fabian Summer

Women as Audience

The American Form of the Novel

From Greatness in Women

From the Folly of the Officials

The Town That Doesn't Want a Chautauqua

Woman Alone

From How I Found the Thing Worth Waiting For

Censorship

Regionalism in American Fiction

One Smoke Stories

A Selected Bibliography of The Essays of Mary Austin
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The Land of Little Rain
by Mary Austin. 172 pgs.

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A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape, describing its savage beauty, its plants and animals, and the occasional human visitor.

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Introduction

Preface

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The Land of Little Rain

Water Trails of The Ceriso

The Scavengers

The Pocket Hunter

The Pocket Hunter

Shoshone Land

Jimville: A Bret Harte Town

The Mesa Trail

The Basket Maker

The Streets of The Mountains

Water Borders

Other Water Borders

Nurslings of the Sky

The Little Town of The Grape Vines
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Literary America, 1903-1934: The Mary Austin Letters
by Mary Hunter Austin, T. Matthews Pearce. 306 pgs.

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Introduction

Early California Days I

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Brief Sketches of Selected Literary Figures Mentioned in the Mary Austin Letters

General Subject Index

About the Editor

Contributions in Women's Studies
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Women and Western American Literature ("The Moral in Austin's The Land of Little Rain" begins on p. 297)
by Susan J. Rosowski, Helen Winter Stauffer. 331 pgs.

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I: Shaping the Western Frontier: Women in History

The Civilizers: Women's Organizations and Western American Literature

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Marie Louise Ritter: the Pioneer Woman in Fact and Fiction

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A Study of Feminism as a Motif in "A Journey to Pike's Peak and New Mexico," by Julia Archibald Holmes

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Reluctant Pioneers

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II: From Fact to Fiction: Myth as Filter

Women in Western American Fiction: Images, or Real Women?

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Sacajawea of Myth and History

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Miscegenation in Popular Western History and Fiction

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The Emergence of Helen Chalmers

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The Western Roots of Feminism in Agne Smedley's Daughter of Earth

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Pioneer Women in the Works of Two Montana Authors: Interviews Wih Dorothy M. Johnson and A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

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III: Images in Transition and Conflict

Hamlin Garland's Feminism

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The Virginian and Antonia Shimerda: Different Sides of the Western Coin

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Beret as the Norse Mythological Goddess Freya/Gerthr

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Marian Forrester and Moll Flanders: Fortunes and Misfortunes

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Wright Morris, Women, and American Culture

The Young Girl in the West: Disenchantment in Jean Stafford's Short Fiction

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IV: Shaping Imaginative Frontiers

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Where the West Begins: Constance Rourke's Images of Her Own Frontierland

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Pioneering the Imagination: Eudora Welty's the Robber Bridegroom

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The Moral in Austin's the Land of Little Rain

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A Laddered, Rain-Bearing Rug: Paula Gunn Allen's Poetry

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Contributors' Notes
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Mary Austin's Feminism: A Reassessment, in Studies in the Novel
by Janis P. Stout. 25 pgs.

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Writing Together, Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature (Chap. 4 "Mary Austin, I-Mary, and Mary-by-Herself: Collaboration in Earth Horizon")
by Linda K. Karell. 219 pgs.

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Writing Together Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Collaborative Endeavors/Collaborative Texts

1: Writing Together/Writing Apart the Politics of Collaboration in Western American Literature

2: Partners in Collaboration

3: A Question of Perspectives Collaboration and Literary Authority in Mourning Dove's Cogewea

4: Mary Austin, I-Mary, and Mary-By-Herself Collaboration in Earth Horizon

5: Collaboration and Contradiction in the Western Memoir

6: "Her Future and My Past” Collaborating with History in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose

Afterword: Collaboration and Western Authorship

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship ("The Example of Mary Austin's Earth Horizon" begins on p. 168)
by Nathaniel Lewis. 297 pgs.

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Unsettling the Literarywest

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Legacy of Authenticity

1: Truth or Consequeces Western Literature in the 1830s

2: Fact and Fiction Canonical Simulations

3: Authentic Reproduction the Picturesque Joaquin Miller

4: The Trap of Authenticity Frank Norris and Western Authorship

5: Coming Out of the Country Environmental Constructivism in Western Nature Writing

6: Inside Out in the Postmodern West

Epilogue: Territorial Expansion

Index
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New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon (Chap. 3 "Divided Narrative: Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson")
by A. Carl Bredahl Jr. 195 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

1: Working within Enclosure: the Traditional Canon

2: The Demands of Space: the Westering Imagination

3: Divided Narrative: Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson

4: Hemingway: the Body as Matrix

5: The Big Sky: Searching for a New Story

6: High Country in the Ox-Bow Incident

7: The Conquest of Don Pedro: Harvey Fergusson's "Long Rider"

8: Wright Morris: Living in the World

9: Valuing Surface: the Imagination of Ivan Doig

10: After Words: the Western Movies of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 (Chap. 8 "Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes")
by Sherry L. Smith. 278 pgs.

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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.

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1: Introduction

Part I: Eastern Adventurers

2: From Enemy to Inspiration Charles Erskine Scott Wood and the Meaning of Indians

3: George Bird Grinnell and the Vanishing" Plains Indian Cultures"

4: Among the Blackfeet

Part II: Western Enthusiasts

5: Native Son

6: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Fight for the Multicultural Southwest

7: Out of Arizona

Part III: Mothers of Reinvention

8: Sisters of the Southwest

9: Mabel Dodge Luhan

Conclusion

Notes

Index
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"Inextricable Disordered Ranges": Mary Austin's Ecofeminist Explorations in Lost Borders, in Studies in Short Fiction
by Beverly A. Hume. 16 pgs.

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The Undomesticated Nature of Feminism: Mary Austin and the Progressive Women Conservationists, in Studies in American Fiction
by Stacy Alaimo. 24 pgs.

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Looking Westward: Geographical Distinctions in the Regional Short Fiction of Mary Foote and Mary Austin, in Studies in Short Fiction
by Sherrie A. Inness. 13 pgs.

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Cavalcade of the American Novel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century (Discussion of Mary Austin begins on p. 230)
by Edward Wagenknecht. 578 pgs.

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Chapter I: Brockden Brown and the Pioneers

Chapter II: The Novel Established: the Age of Cooper and Simms

Chapter III: The Soul's Romance: Hawthorne

Chapter IV: The Ambiguities of Herman Melville

Chapter V: Mrs. Stowe and Some Contemporaries

Chapter VI: "The LIncoln of Our LIterature"

Chapter VII: The American Mirror: William Dean Howells

Chapter VIII: The American as Artist: Henry James

Chapter IX: Novelists of the 'Eighties

Chapter X: Some Southern Novelists of the 'Nineties and After

Chapter XI: Towards Naturalism

Chapter XII: Voices of the New Century

Chapter XIII: Edith Wharton: Social Background and Ethical Dilemma

Chapter XIV: Ellen Glasgow: Triumph and Despair

Chaprer XV: Theodore Dreiser, the Mystic Naturalist

Chapter XVI: In the Second Decade

Chapter XVII: Willa Cather and the Lovely Past

Chapter XVIII: James Branch Cabell: the Anatomy of Romanticism*Under the Tide "Cabell: A Reconsideration," the Larger Part of This Chapter Appeared in College English, IX (1948), 239-246. Copyright, 1948, by the University of Chicago Press. Quotations from the Writings of James Branch Cabell in This Chapter Are Made by Kind Permission of the Author.

Chapter XIX: Sinclair Lewis and the Babbitt Warren

Chapter XX: Ernest Hemingway: Legend and Reality

Chapter XXI: Novelists of the 'Twenties

Chapter XXII: Novelists of the 'Thirties

Chapter XXIII: A Note on the Fiction of the 'Forties and After

Appendix: Notes on Novelists Not Considered in the Text

Selected Bibliography with Annotations

Index of Names

Index of Titles
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One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West (Discussion of Mary Austin begins on p. 67)
by Joan M. Jensen. 178 pgs.

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Preface

One Foot on the Rockies

Introduction

Part One

I: Out There, Out West Creation Stories

2: An Energy of Their Own The Artists

3: Naming A Price, Finding A Space The Marketplace

The Hungry Eye Audiences

Part Two

6 from Theborderlands Creating a Memory

Notes

Index
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An Artists' Home: Gender and the Santa Fe Culture Center Controversy, in Journal of the Southwest
by Flannery Burke. 28 pgs.

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)" begins on p. 12)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.

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Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Marita Odette Bonner (1898-1971)

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (1894-1991)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Alice Maude Ewell (1860-1946)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)

Zona Gale (1874-1938)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)

Jovita GonzÁLez de Mireles (1904-1983)

Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956)

Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Margery Latimer (1899-1932)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Mourning Dove (Hum-Um-Ishu-Mau) [Christine Quintasket] (1882?-1936)

Josephina Niggli (1910-1983)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-)

Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)

Zitkala-šA (Gertrude Simmons Bonninu) (1876-1938)

Selected Bibliography

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